| 1 Software Requirements As Negotiated Win Conditions (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| Current processes and support systems for software requirements determination and analysis often neglect critical needs of important classes of stakeholders and limit themselves to concerns of the developers, users and customers. Besides developers, customers, and users, these stakeholders can include maintainers, interfacers, testers, product line managers, and sometimes members of the general public. This paper describes the results to date in researching and prototyping a Next Generation Process Model (NGPM) and support system (NGPSS) which directly addresses these issues. The NGPM emphasizes collaborative processes, involving all of the significant constituents with a stake in the software product. Its conceptual basis is a set of Theory W (win-win) extensions to the Spiral Model of software development. The Next-Generation Process Support System (NGPSS) is a groupware-oriented support capability for the NGPM. It enables an approach for collaborative win-condition elicitation and resolution with respect to the prospective software product's constituents or stakeholders. This approach is based on the Theory W steps of win-condition identification; expectations management; collaborative creation, analysis, and negotiation of win-win solutions; and management of win-lose or lose-lose risks. The NGPSS is elaborated into a candidate set of user interface screens and collaborative support capabilities, based | |||||||||||||||
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